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Françoise-Louise de Warens, born Louise Éléonore de la Tour du Pil, also called Madame de Warens (31 March 1699 – 29 July 1762), was the benefactress and mistress of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Louise-Éléanore de la Tour du Pil, baroness de Warens was a benevolent aristocrat who engaged the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in an idyllic liaison from 1728 to 1742, furthering his education and social position as his lover and maternal protectress.
Françoise-Louise de la Tour, également connue sous les noms de Madame de Warens ou Louise-Françoise-Éléonore de la Tour du Pil, dame de Warens, née le 31 mars 1699 à Vevey, en Suisse, et morte le 29 juillet 1762 à Chambéry, alors dans le duché de Savoie, est une aristocrate suisse, manufacturière, prospectrice de filons ...
Who was Françoise-Louise de Warens? Françoise-Louise de Warens, born Louise Éléonore de la Tour du Pil, also called Madame de Warens, was the benefactress and mistress of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Françoise-Louise de Warens, born Louise Éléonore de la Tour du Pil, also called Madame de Warens (31 March 1699 – 29 July 1762), was the benefactress and mistress of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Portrait présumé de Françoise-Louise de Warens. Huile sur toile, vers 1730-1740, 81 x 64 cm (Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Don d’Emile de Crousaz, 1846, Inv. 727). Auteure/Auteur: Paola Crivelli
Madame de Warens, born Françoise-Louise de la Tour (1699-1762) Madame de Warens was a complex figure in the Swiss aristocracy of the eighteenth century. An aristocrat, a manufacturer, a mine prospector, a letter writer, a spy and a libertine, she led a singular life.
